He starts out saying he was a "sap" for believing Obama was different, you standard firebagger refrain...
I liked Obama’s payroll tax cut ideas and urged Republicans to play along. But of course I’m a sap. When the president unveiled the second half of his stimulus it became clear that this package has nothing to do with helping people right away or averting a double dip. This is a campaign marker, not a jobs bill.
...spends the next several paragraphs laying into Obama for being awful by using GOP talking points on how the rich pay too much in taxes, then admits this at the end:
The president believes the press corps imposes a false equivalency on American politics. We assign equal blame to both parties for the dysfunctional politics when in reality the Republicans are more rigid and extreme. There’s a lot of truth to that...
What's this? Actual honesty? Oh wait.
...but at least Republicans respect Americans enough to tell us what they really think. The White House gives moderates little morsels of hope, and then rips them from our mouths. To be an Obama admirer is to toggle from being uplifted to feeling used.
Yes, Republicans respect Americans and evil extremist Obama hates them. And by "Americans" Brooks means "moderates." And by "moderates" Brooks means people who make $600 grand a year. You know, regular, salt of the earth types. Brooks admits to the constant unfair media false equivalency of Obama being "just as bad or worse" as the fringe GOP, and then proceeds to make that false equivalency in the second half of the same goddamn sentence. To Brooks, the notion that the rich should pay even Clinton era tax rates is as bad as Rick Perry saying evolution is "a theory that's out there." He's just as bad and Brooks is saying he's so stupid for believing otherwise, because they're the same.
If only Obama wasn't such a liberal extremist...
The White House has decided to wage the campaign as fighting liberals. I guess I understand the choice, but I still believe in the governing style Obama talked about in 2008. I may be the last one. I’m a sap.
Yes, you, David Brooks, are the last person who believes in President Obama, you know. Mewling idiot.